From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
Notes related to national funders supporting research or which could support research related to Wikimedia projects. Related to the project Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/The state of science and Wikimedia: Who is doing what, and who is funding it? .
Canada
Grantmakers
Notes
IDRC / CRDI International Development Research Centre
Financed research related to African innovation based on copyright and open licenses OpenAIR
Grantmakers
Notes
Open Society Foundations (OSI)
Financed events related to the open movement
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Financed events related to the open movement
The World Wide Web Foundation
Financed events related to the open movement
Welcome Trust
Financed events related to the open movement
Knight Foundation
Financed events related to the open movement
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
? Check? Financed events related to the open movement
Skoll Foundation
? Check? Financed events related to the open movement
Open Technology Fund OTF https://www.opentech.fund/
? Check? Financed events related to the open movement
MacArthur Foundation
? Check? Financed events related to the open movement
Fundacion Karisma (Colombia)
? Check? Financed events related to the open movement
Omidyar Network
? Check? Financed events related to the open movement
Global Philanthropy Forum
? Check? Financed events related to the open movement
Belmont Forum https://belmontforum.org
https://grants.at/en/
Grantmakers
Notes
Stiftung Mercator https://www.stiftung-mercator.de/en/
Financed events related to the open movement
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
Financed events related to the open movement
Robert Bosch Stiftung (global issues)
Financed events related to the open movement
Bertelsmann Stiftung (social change)
Financed events related to the open movement
GIZ
Commons@ip
Financed research related to African innovation based on copyright and open licenses OpenAIR
BMZ
Financed research related to African innovation based on copyright and open licenses OpenAIR
Financed research related to African innovation based on copyright and open licenses OpenAIR
Volkswagen Foundation https://www.volkswagenstiftung.de
Researchers with creative ideas aimed at changing the world of science
German grants https://www.stiftungen.org/en/home.html
Grantmakers
Projects supported
European funding
International projects - please refer to European funding
European funding PNRR
Action research by GLAMs supported by the National school for heritage
Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche
Cariplo Foundation
OpenGLAM
San Paolo Foundation
Financed Share your knowledge: Creative Commons and Wikipedia for cultural institutions
Wikimedia Italia
Small funds 1'000 - 10'000 € OpenGLAM, uploads, conferences and some research
lettera27 Foundation / Moleskine Foundation
Financed WikiAfrica and many related projects until 2013.
Universities
Researchers
Topics areas
Notes
University of Torino
Enrico Bertacchini
Cultural economics
Wikimedia Commons
Open movement in Italy .
Grantmakers
Notes
European funding
SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation
Including Swiss national funding for research infrastructures
Innosuisse
Supporting start-ups, and collaborations between companies and research
Mercator Stiftung Schweiz
Scientific communication, knowledge transfer
Hasler Foundation
Innovation, ICT, Supporting also hackathons
Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Fondation Leenaards https://leenaards.ch
Programme for media and democracy - Nouvelles formes de démocratie et de participation citoyenne
SNIS Swiss Network for International Studies
Interdisciplinary, international comparative research mainly focussed on political sciences and relationships with UN programmes / agencies
swissuniversities
Supporting open science
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences Foundation Science et Cité
Supporting citizen science
Velux Stiftung https://veluxstiftung.ch
areas of daylight, forestry, healthy ageing and ophthalmology.
Nomis Foundation https://nomisfoundation.ch
“create a spark” in the world of science by enabling and supporting pioneering research
Nestlé Foundation
Nutrition
Sight and Life https://www.sightandlife.org/
Nutrition
Universities supporting internally their researchers and research projects
Foundations supporting territorial projects
Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
?
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI
Research Partnership Grants (RPG)
Small travel grants for researchers to increase cooperation with specific continents/countries
LH - Leading Houses
SOR4D - Solution-oriented Research for Development (by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF))
Check if it is still active
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Mandates
Geneva Science-Policy Interface: Impact Collaboration Programme
Scholars at Risk https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/
Wikimedia CH
Small funds 1'000 - 10'000 € OpenGLAM, uploads, conferences and some research
Network of Swiss foundations https://www.swissfoundations.ch/
Very important the engagement of university libraries and librarians, and the synergies with the Swiss national strategy for Open Science and in particular open data.
ORD Open Research Data prize - relevant to see synergies with Wikidata and the Wikimedia projects.
Grantmakers
Notes
Arcadia Foundation
Grantmakers
Notes
National Research Foundation (NRF)
